Divergent Book Review by Veronica Roth

(Electronic beep) - If you watched my June favorites video, at the end of it I mentioned
I started using Audible.Com. Audible.Com is the top
provider of audiobooks with over 150,000 titles to choose from. (Hand slapping chest) Sorry, I had a moment. Anyway, I recommended the book Divergent by Veronica Roth and told you I would start listening to it in the car.

And guess what, I finished it! Thank you, L.A. Traffic. So now, I wanted to make a video giving my thoughts on this book. This book! Ooh, I loved it.

Ooh, I think I liked it
better than Hunger Games. (Groans) Okay, warning: minor spoilers ahead. First, you gotta understand. Besides a certain magical,
wonderful book series about a certain boy wizard, dystopian books are my favorite.

I heard about Divergent, but I didn't feel like I had to read it right away because the movie was just coming out and I had just started
rereading Hunger Games, so, yes. But then, what pushed me over the cliff of reading, it's like Reading
Rainbow but more violent, is that I found out that Tris, the main character of the series, had the same tattoo as me. I also have a tattoo of flying birds to represent each member
of my family on my ankle. Not this, this isn't real.

I got this tattoo before I read the book so when I heard about
that, it was destiny. We had the same tattoo,
her name started with a T, she was small but mighty, I mean, come on. So, in this book, society is
divided into five factions. Dauntless, Erudite, Abnegation, Candor, and Amity.

And when you turn 16, you must choose the faction that most
represents your personality. Kind of like Hogwarts houses, or like a Buzzfeed quiz, but to the extreme. You can choose to stay in
the faction you grew up with, or transfer to a new faction, but if you transfer, you basically never see your family again. Faction before blood.

Dauntless is for the brave, Abnegation is for the selfless, Erudite is for the intelligent, Amity is for the peaceful, and Candor is for the truthful. But before you decide on your faction, you have to go through an aptitude test that basically puts in you in a simulation and helps you choose. Well, when Tris takes the aptitude test her results are inconclusive,
making her divergent. Hey look, it's the title of the book.

Apparently this is bad, very bad, so she can never speak about her results. She who must not be named divergent. Well, when I got to this part, of course I had to sort
myself into a faction. And usually I'm good
with this kind of stuff, like Harry Potter was so obvious to me.

But this was hard. I know I'm not Candor or Amity, but the tattoo-loving daredevil in me likes Dauntless, the routine-loving giver in me loves Abnegation, and the nerd-loving Ravenclaw
in me loves Erudite. Well, I guess that makes me divergent. I would want to choose Dauntless, but I feel like in the
initiation I would just die.

I don't know, leave a
comment with what faction you think I'd be in, I'm curious. So Tris chooses Dauntless
because she's a little badass, and they're like, welcome to Dauntless, let's jump off a train. You alive, great, let's jump off a roof. These bitches be crazy.

We meet Four, sexy Mc-muscles, and Eric, ew, I don't like him. Since Tris is from Abnegation, everyone makes fun of
her and calls her stiff, and she's like, don't mess
with me and my sarcasm. Short people make up
for height in sarcasm. This book gave me a lot of emotions.

Tris always says that she's not pretty, and that it's weird for her to think that an older guy could
actually have feelings for her because she's so small, and I'm like, um, my life. When I was 16, I didn't
consider myself pretty, and I had a hard time thinking that guys liked me too, for the same reasons. I feel you, Tris. (Yells) The Ferris wheel, the Ferris wheel.

It was like the Hunger
Games cave scene for me times 100. It was so intense. I remember when I got to that part, I was driving and I was about to go into the grocery store
but I wasn't finished with the chapter yet, so I just stayed in the parking lot like holding my breath, waiting to finish the chapter and I was dying. Yay, audiobooks! I just felt very connected
to these characters, especially Tris.

This book does a great job in letting you know and
understand what's happening but keeping you one the same page as Tris so that when something does happen, it's exciting and terrifying and wonderful, all at the same time. Oh, Four. (Groans) Emotions! Four is just a perfect representation of a lot of guys, how they show their emotions, how they're pretty obvious
when they like someone, how they can be very hard emotionally but also very vulnerable, just brilliant writing. (Moans) His tattoos, his everything.

Oh, and at the end? (Screams) I could not, I could not,
I could not with this book, no, no, no no no. This book was just so
much in the best way. I loved it, and now I
have to see the movie, and I already downloaded the second book Insurgent from Audible, and unh. (Groans) Did you guys see the movie? Did you like the movie? Is Shailene as good as she
is in The Fault in Our Stars? Questions, so many questions.

Please go to audible.Com/tessa. You get a 30-day free trial plus a free book, aka Divergent. If you haven't read it
yet, please read it. And even if you already read it, listening to a book is
a whole new experience.

It's comforting, relaxing, and you can really explore your imagination because you're listening to it. And Audible is great
because it's on my iPhone, I'm listening to it in the car, in the grocery store,
walking down the street, in bed, basically everywhere. Audible.Com/tessa. Do it.

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favorite part of the book and what faction you think
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(Smacks lips) Love you guys, bye!.